Etymograph

English

scratchmark

From scratch + mark.

A compound of scratch + mark

Middle English scracchen

English scratch

Proto-Indo-European *mórǵs ‘edge’

Proto-Germanic *markō ‘boundary’

Proto-West Germanic *marku ‘boundary’

Old English mearc ‘mark’

Middle English mark

English mark

Today it means

noun A mark left as the result of a scratch.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “scratchmark”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

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